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This sounds great... in theory. But has a pull request feature ever been created for a non-plain text format? Intuitively, this doesn't really seem possible to

This sounds great... in theory. But has a pull request feature ever been created for a non-plain text format? Intuitively, this doesn't really seem possible to me for a sophisticated document format. E.g., how would you represent a change to an embedded graph in a pull request? (And would that same approach scale to any form of embedded media?)

TheCloudlessSky 6y ago
It's not an easy task, but it's doable! I co-founded a company called ProcedureFlow[0], that allows change requests but for hyperlinked flowcharts. My inspiration was 100% GitHub/pull requests. A procedure is made up of many flows that are linked together. Everyone that uses the procedure views the "live" flows (like a master branch). Each user gets their own branch which we call a "draft". In a draft, a user is free to make any changes they want (add/delete/modify flows) and then submit all the changes for approval. Approving the change request then merges the changes into the "live" for everyone else to see/use. I even went so far as to build side-by-side diff of the flowcharts, rebasing/merging with live, and conflict resolution. It's simplified in the UI so the terminology isn't 100% like git. But, one of our biggest hurdles though is actually teaching users how this works why it's better than the current mode of document locks/real time editing. And when our customers "get it", they really fall in love with the concepts and why it's better! [0]: https://procedureflow.com/ https://procedureflow.com/